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Watch: Did man take beer from bar before fatal wreck?

Video showing Todd Shaw, 51, drinking at Ethel's Tavern Feb. 21 before his involvement in a fatal crash. Bar was cited and bartender shown in video was charged for over-serving Shaw, according to the Clermont County Prosecutor's Office.
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The Ohio Department of Public Safety cited a bar in Anderson Township and charged one of its bartenders in connection with a drunken-driving crash that killed a school teacher earlier this year.

Department officials charged Linda Coomer, 60, with over-serving an intoxicated man who later hit and killed a man on a bicycle in Union Township, according to a news release from the public safety department.

There is video showing Todd Shaw, 51, drank four beers and three shots in 3.5 hours before getting getting in his car on February 21, according to court documents. The video, obtained by The Enquirer, also appears to show Coomer give Shaw a bag containing beer before he leaves.

Once Coomer's criminal proceedings are complete the Ohio Liquor Control Commission will consider the citation filed against Ethel's Tavern, said Harold Torrens, the agent-in-charge at the public safety department's investigative unit office.

The bar could lose its liquor permit depending on its prior history, Torrens said.

A worker at Ethel's Tavern who answered the phone Wednesday declined to comment.

Shaw was driving on Round Bottom Road when he hit Frederick Carey, 51.

Carey, a Cincinnati Country Day School teacher who got married four months earlier, died at the scene.

Shaw was recently sentenced to 9 1/2 years in prison.

Listen to prosecutor detail Todd Shaw's day of drinking that resulted in a drunken-driving crash that killed Fred Carey in February, who was on his bike on Round Bottom Rd.